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A child died in an avalanche, and she won’t leave me alone.

A woman plagued by blood-draining mosquitoes on the Alaskan tundra figures out a horrific way to scratch her unending itching.

There’s something outside my tent…and I think it’s hungry.

A collector of rare tropical fish, receives a new species that is both fascinating and terrifying.

DREAD - Thousands of people have gone missing out in the wild and here is a collection of tales that offer up some horrifying reasons why. Emmy-award-winning National Geographic cinematographer Kevin Bachar has swum with sharks, climbed the peaks of mountains, and explored the darkest of forests. In DREAD, he weaves together terrifying true stories from his real-life adventures with twisted fiction from the depths of his frightening imagination. Flip open the pages to indulge in the dark side of nature— haunted forests, tree demons, monstrous snakes, and a search-and-rescue team terrorized by the ghosts of those they couldn’t save.

Did I enjoy the book? Did I find it scary? Not hardly. Maybe because it’s obvious that all the stories will end the same way, with the protagonist not doing at all well, that it was hard to feel any, well, dread. Honestly, my first thought was that it was a second-rate EC Tales from the Crypt.

Perhaps if the stories hadn’t all ended somewhat the same way, I’d be more inclined to give the book a favorable review. But as it is, I couldn’t find much to recommend it. It’s not awful, but I’d be inclined to give it a pass.